Lip-stick holder or container



April 23, 1929. M. D. LINDON.

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, Patented Apr. '23, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

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Application filed October 6, 1927. Serial No. 224,489.

like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the holder or container closed, Figure 2 is a similar view showing the cover elements removed,

Figure 3 is a central longitudinal section through the container showing one of the cover elements removed and one of the lip-- sticks projected to the outer position, and,

Figure 4 is a transverse section taken on line H ofv Figure 3. v The device embodies a tubular body portion 5, preferably formed of sheet metal, although any other suitable material may be used. This tubular body portion is preferably elliptical in cross section. Mounted to slide within is a tubular lipstick holding element 6, open at both ends, and adapted to receive in its opposite ends the inner ends of the lipsticks Tand 8, of different shades. 4. These lipsticks are frictionall held within the holding ele? ment-G. The holding element 6 is provided with a headedstud 9, screw-threaded to engage within a screw-threaded opening 10, formed in the side of the holdingv element 6. This headed stud slides within a longitudinal slot 11, formed in the tubular body portion 5. The slot extends throughout the major portion of the length of the tubular body portion 5, and the headed stud 9 proj ects to the exterior of the tubular body portion 5 finger. The opposite ends oi the tubular body portion 5 are open and the holding element 6 may be shifted longitudinally within the tubular body portion 5, in opposite directions and hence the free end of either lipstick 7 or 8 may be projected beyond the tubular body portion 5, for use, as is obvious. When the holding element 6 is in the tubular body portion 5 for engagement with the thumb or e the centralor intermediate position, the lipsticks 7 and 8 are covered by the tubular body portion 5. Y

The numeral ments, closed at their outer ends and adapt-- ed for insertion upon the ends of the tubu lar body portion 5. When thefcover elements 12 are in the closed position, their mner ends contact, and these inner ends have notches 13, to receive. the shank of the headed stud 9.

In the use of the device, the tubular holding element 6 may be projected to the ends of the tubular body portion 5, and the lip sticks 7 and 8 inserted therein. -The tubular holding element 6 may now be returned to the central or intermediate position and the cover elements 12 may be laced upon the tubular body portion 5. en the user '12' designates cover eledesires to employ either lipstick 7 or 8, the

adjacent cover element 12 is removed and the headed stud this engaged b the thumb to shift the tubular holding e ement 6 toward the corresponding end of the tubular I body portion 5, thereby projecting the lipstick to the uncovered position, as clearly shown in Figure 3. As before stated, the tubular body portion 5 is preferably formed of thin sheet metal and the cover elements also preferably formed of thin sheetmetal, and are accordingly resilient. The headed stud 9 projects outwardly beyond the cover elements 12, andhence the user may hold one cover element 12 in one hand and exert a slight pressure thereon, which will hold the tubulaii body portion 5 against longitudinal movement within user may then engage the headed stud 9 with the thumb of the other hand, and as this headed studwill engage the'other cover element, the cover element may be shifted toward the cover element 12. The I the open position by the movement of the headed cover element and shift the lipstick to the outer or operative position.

It is to be understood that the form of my device, herewith shown and described, is to be taken as a preferred example of the same, and that various changes in the shape, size and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of my stud, which also advances or pro ects the tubular holding element to the outer position. Hence a single movement of the head-' ed stud may be employed to remove the invention, claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

or the scope of the subjoined A holder for lipstioks of different shades the tubular body portion and having its op-' posite ends open to receive the lipsticks, a stud secured to the tubular holding element and extending radially through and beyond the longitudinal slot, and a pair of relatively thin flexible caps longitudinally slidably mounted upon the opposite endportions of suitable lengths so that their inner ends substantially contact when they are in the closed position, to substantially completely cover the tubular body portion and longitudinal slot, said stud extending radially outwardly beyond said caps, the arrangement being such that one cap may be pressed in the hand and clamped to the tubular body portion whereby thestud may be shifted forwardly to carry With it the other cap and the tubular holding element.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

MARJORIE D. LINDON. 

